Quotes About Gamble

#1. I've always been happy to take a gamble on myself.

Peter Jackson

#2. Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being.

Rumi

#3. And so we went to the Panamint, where Death had gone to gamble and had, as always, won.

Dean Koontz

#4. This was the first time he had seriously confronted what he was doing, and the force of that awareness came very abruptly - with a surging of his pulse and a frantic pounding in his head. He was about to gamble his life on that table, and the insanity of that risk filled him with a kind of awe.

Paul Auster

#5. That's why I really don't play cards or gamble. Because I'd crack.

Joe Mantegna

#6. Deliberately modifying the earth's atmosphere would be a desperate gamble with significant risks. Yet the more likely climate change is to cause devastation, the more attractive even the most perilous attempts to mitigate those changes will become.

Michael Specter

#7. They [human beings] are unwilling to gamble that God made those people who are skilled at rational argumentation uniquely virtuous. They protect themselves and others from cleverness by obscuring their preferences.

James G. March

#8. Every battle is a gamble, Snow. The man who does nothing also takes a risk.

George R R Martin

#9. I try not to repeat myself too often, but it's a gamble. 'Fred Claus' had three Oscar winners in it. No business - it was a bad movie.

Elizabeth Banks

#10. This bill [Immigration Reform and Control act of 1986] is a gamble, a riverboat gamble. There is no guarantee that employer sanctions will work or that amnesty will work. We are headed into uncharted waters.

Charles Schumer

#11. A gamble. Everything was a damn gamble. Betting against luck and the Fates, again and again, and again. She kept walking, waiting for the bullet.

Paolo Bacigalupi

#12. If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose
the gambler is always ruined.

Michael Crichton

#13. I'm not a network executive, but it seems to be a time when networks take more of a gamble with higher-concept shows. And so, it's fun to be on something that's original, that's finding viewership, that's finding a great audience, and really distinguishing itself. Summer's a great place to do that.

James Wolk

#14. The nationalist movement supported Sinhala by suppressing Tamil; there were competing nationalisms. It was a fundamental mistake to make parallel streams in education - or a calculated political gamble. Politicians were playing with it.

Romesh Gunesekera

#15. If we reject, as we must, the doctrine that the majority is always right, to submit moral issues to the vote is to gamble that what we believe to be right will come out of the ballot with more votes behind it than what we believe to be wrong; and that is a gamble we will often lose.

Peter Singer

#16. Love is a gamble, heartbreak is the cost.
But never lose hope, for love is never truly lost.

Divya Singh

#17. I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.

Michelle Bachelet

#18. To work, Sissy. To. Work. Not to start shit. Not to race. Not to gamble. And definitely not to get arrested or turn all of Japan against you. Remember, I'm not stationed right around the corner like before.

Shelly Laurenston

#19. The forest, like a casino, always wins. That's why you should never gamble, or enter the forest. And above all, never underestimate Schmidty.

Gitty Daneshvari

#20. Before Volcker's speech, bonds had been conservative investments, into which investors put their savings when they didn't fancy a gamble in the stock market. After Volcker's speech, bonds became objects of speculation, a means of creating wealth rather than merely storing it.

Michael Lewis

#21. Did I pick safety or ambition? The slow and steady or the gamble? I smiled. Put like that, it wasn't even a question.

Rachel Bach

#22. The real stakes in the theater are high - they are life stakes. That's what I love about it. You gamble with your life, and that's a gamble worth taking.

Lauren Bacall

#23. Gamble, cheat, lie, and steal. Let me explain: Gamble for your best shot in life - dare to take risks. Cheat those who would have you be less than you are. Lie in the arms of those you love. And finally, steal every moment of happiness.

Caitlyn Jenner

#24. Consciousness is the central nervous system's gamble that it exists ...

J.G. Ballard

#25. We were licencees of Sara Lee Corp's air freshener brand Ambi Pur, which they sold to Procter and Gamble. So we handed it over to Procter and Gamble. Now we will introduce our own brand of air freshener.

Adi Godrej

#26. I talk to God and make deals with him every time I gamble. Otherwise, I leave him alone.

Max Rubin

#27. Every conscious act requires risk. Every conscious act requires decision. Put these two facts together and you realize that the secret to life is not to avoid gambling but to gamble well.

Mike Caro

#28. This act of total surrender is not merely a fantastic intellectual and mystical gamble; it is something much more serious. It is an act of love for this unseen person, who, in the very gift of love by which we surrender ourselves to his reality also makes his presence known to us.

Thomas Merton

#29. Use condoms; it's wise not to gamble with your children's future.

Bauvard

#30. Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Blaise Pascal

#31. Love is like gamble. From the start you know you'll loose everything you have.

Arzum Uzun

#32. I don't really go out much at all. But there are times when I'm like, 'I gotta get out.' Then we go to Vegas, and we'll gamble.

Jenny McCarthy

#33. I gamble with one foot pointed toward the door.

Frank Scoblete

#34. If I gamble, I go for the lowest-end blackjack or slots. It's because I don't like to lose!

Bill Rancic

#35. Life is a Gamble sometimes you won something and sometimes others.

Udayveer Singh

#36. When you're in the back of the pack, you can gamble a little bit more.

Michael Andretti

#37. But I also think that it does create a lot of revenue, but to me it's a temporary revenue stream because it's an industry that, if suddenly gambling started in Massachusetts, then a lot of our patrons who would gamble in New Hampshire if we had it, would disappear.

Craig Benson

#38. But each one is a gamble of Nature, a hopeful attempt at forming a human being.

Hermann Hesse

#39. At MGM, you knew you were going to be working next year; you knew you were going to get paid. But I was too ambitious musically to settle for it. And I wanted to gamble with whatever talent I might have had.

Andre Previn

#40. Go ahead and gamble a lie. A person who will not tell you seven lies within a hundred yards is useless as a man.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

#41. [Motherhood is] the biggest gamble in the world. It is the glorious life force. It's huge and scary-it's an act of infinite optimism.

Gilda Radner

#42. I could make it. I could win drinking contests, I could gamble. Maybe I could pull a few holdups. I didn't ask much, just to be left alone.

Charles Bukowski

#43. I would not ask for things to be different, because it is not in my power to know if that would be better or worse than what I have today. I am not prepared to take that gamble.

Barbara "Cutie" Cooper

#44. The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.

Salman Rushdie

#45. The big man bent to her ear. "You know you have to gamble, don't you, to get what you want? So what are you prepared to lose?

Anna Hope

#46. We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet's atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we willing to gamble?

David Suzuki

#47. I drive every day. I like to gamble.

David Edwards

#48. People who don't do jazz think it's black magic. But really, it's just a matter of getting used to it. It's fun to gamble. The trick is not to fall back on the things you've done before.

Andre Previn

#49. In China's big cities, American products - say, for instance, Proctor and Gamble shampoos or many other goods - are widely coveted by a lot of Chinese consumers.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#50. I still gamble, but it's all legal. I own horses, and I go to watch my horse. I don't go daily.

Pete Rose

#51. I'm not going to freeze my body. One life is enough for me. Some people take this gamble. That someone will be able to bring them back in the future. I'm not going to do it.

Dolph Lundgren

#52. How many a year has passed and gone and many gamble has been lost and won, and many a road taken by a friend and each one I've never seen again.

Bob Dylan

#53. Intuition, if you are fashion designer is really the key to everything. I just really have a feeling it's the right moment in time to create a new business model. Obviously I have facts and figures that could back that up. It isn't a gamble; it's a calculated risk.

Monita Rajpal

#54. Half-Heartedness Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half-heartedness does not reach into majesty. You set out to find God, but then you keep stopping for long periods at mean-spirited roadhouses.

Rumi

#55. You don't gamble to win. You gamble so you can gamble the next day.

Bert Ambrose

#56. When I took the job in Philadelphia, we had a chance to hire a personnel guy and I hired Tom [Gamble], really from my relationship in college. When you're in college, you get to see scouts on a daily basis, and the ones you kind of hit it off with. I thought he had a great eye.

Chip Kelly

#57. 'And so we exchange privacy for intimacy. We gamble with it, hoping that by exposing ourselves, someone will find a way in. This is why the human animal will always be vulnerable: because it wants to be.'

Max Barry

#58. It is a significant gamble to assume that troops in our U.K. Armed Forces would volunteer for a Scottish Defence Force.

Philip Hammond

#59. The recovery of the banks is what happens when you reduce competition, lend money to them at zero interest rates, allow them to gamble. That particular style of restoration actually inhibits the economic recovery.

Joseph Stiglitz

#60. Life is a gamble, Vane. It's harsh and painful most of the time, and it's not for the timid. Spoils go to the victor, not to the one who doesn't even show up for the battle.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#61. Kestrel's laugh was white in the cold. "We could gamble for your coat."
"Ah, love, why don't we skip to the part where you win and I give it to you?

Marie Rutkoski

#62. Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

Simone De Beauvoir

#63. It's a gamble. A band like Kiss, a lot of those are our audience but we don't do as much make-up. Alice would have more to lose if we got back together.

Michael Owen Bruce

#64. Chewbacca's back home, looking for his family. Luke's searching the galaxy for old Jedi teachings. Han Solo's got nothing to smuggle, nowhere to gamble, no foolish Rebellion to fight for. He's like the Falcon: retired to a hangar somewhere, waiting for something, anything, to happen.

Chuck Wendig

#65. The way he saw it, poker and life had a lot in common. You played the cards you were dealt, figured the odds, took the gamble or not. And when your cards were shit, you bluffed if the pot was worth it, and if you had balls.

Nora Roberts

#66. I don't like losing money. I don't go gamble. Because I don't want to lose any money. I didn't grow up with any money and I'm not going to go gamble and lose money.

Rick Scott

#67. The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you're certainly going to lose. But in the real world, where the only thing you're gambling is, say, your time or your embarrassment, then the more stuff you do, the more you give luck a chance to find you.

Scott Adams

#68. Life is a gamble and so is love

T.T. McClendon

#69. Choosing colours should not be a gamble. It should be a conscious decision. Colours have a meaning and a function.

Verner Panton

#70. It became a gamble to myself whether I was able to do the exact same film ["Funny Games"]under very different circumstances.

Michael Haneke

#71. Love renders all our plans and all our intentions a great big gamble.

Henry Theophilus Finck

#72. I don't return fruit. Fruit's a gamble. I know that going in.

Jerry Seinfeld

#73. To hope is to gamble. It's to bet on your futures, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than gloom and safety. To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk.

Rebecca Solnit

#74. Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.

Nancy Pelosi

#75. Life is one big fat gamble, and the odds are never in your favor. So you either go for it anyway and toss the dice or you don't play. But not playing?" She jabbed him in the bare chest with her finger. "That's the coward's way out. And I hadn't pegged you for a coward. Figure your shit out.

Jill Shalvis

#76. The CEOs of every major Wall Street firm were also on the wrong end of the gamble. All of them, without exception, either ran their public corporations into bankruptcy or were saved from bankruptcy by the United States government. They all got rich, too.

Michael Lewis

#77. $500,000 Amount a California man claims he shouldn't have to pay a Las Vegas casino; his suit alleges that employees allowed him to gamble while drunk

Anonymous

#78. When you take high risks, the rewards are higher. So sometimes I'll gamble just to see what happens. If it doesn't work, I know I can't do that.

Toni Braxton

#79. I don't think you make documentary films to get your country house. If you're trying to gamble on that, you've very foolish.

Liz Garbus

#80. If you're addicted to gambling, you know where to go to gamble. So, if you have a condition where you're addicted to sex, you know where other that are looking for the same thing are going.

Michael Fassbender

#81. Tommy's [Gamble] an East Coast guy, so he kind of talks fast and in quick statements and phrases, so I understood him and he understood me, and we just hit it off.

Chip Kelly

#82. Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep

Garrison Keillor

#83. Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

Jerome K. Jerome

#84. Life is indeed a gamble, the ultimate game of chance, based purely upon having the ability to make the right choices at the right time. You never win or lose in life if you realise it is all just for the experience. Learn to create your own destiny, don't wait to see what fate throws your way.

Steven Redhead

#85. I'm going to leave Las Vegas a loser, but at least I didn't gamble my heart.

Jessica Love

#86. I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes.

Chris Moneymaker

#87. Men will gamble and plot and fight and fall, all for the winning of a trophy. A woman's heart, a piece of land, a kingdom, a lordship, a contract, a ship, an egg
it hardly matters the which or the what, as soon as it is seen to be desired by one, another will make a prize of it.

Jeanette Winterson

#88. To anticipate the market is to gamble. To be patient and react only when the market gives the signal is to speculate.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore

#89. When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.

Charles Bukowski

#90. You've got to gamble every once in a while in a round of golf. I'm not afraid to screw up.

Fuzzy Zoeller

#91. Love is a gamble and sometimes it hurts, but whether you win or lose being in love is a beautiful thing.

M.J. Abraham

#92. It's not legal to gamble but it is legal to do fantasy leagues. To me it's an outlet where people can go on, play, and make some money.

Slaine

#93. I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.

Alex Trebek

#94. Thank you for showing me it was worth taking a gamble again, darling." I dropped my head until my lips were against his and finished, "It feels good finally to win and win huge.

Kristen Ashley

#95. It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.

Mario Puzo

#96. Prayer is never just an emergency flare or desperate anxious gamble. God's attention is not based on our performance but parental love.

Timothy Keller

#97. Caesar gives his legions free rein to chase women and gamble when they are off duty. "My men fight just as well when they are stinking of perfume," he says.

Anonymous

#98. When you put your whole heart in something you risk just that. Your whole heart. It's a high roller's type of gamble. I can tell by your letters that you love with your whole heart.

Na

#99. A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own.

H.G.Wells

#100. Las Vegas is like huge fake breasts. Nothing is real, just plastic. It is all provided with a clean veneer over the grime of its purpose, to swindle. And I don't gamble

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